John Jacob Astor and Waldorf Astor MP Passengers on the Titanic and Olympic | Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Learn More. John Jacob Astor and Waldorf Astor MP Passengers on the Titanic and Olympic Stuart Kelly Member Hi there, I saw from the Times of 21 September 1911 that one of the Olympic's passengers at the time of the collision with HMS Hawke in the Solent was a Mr Waldorf Astor, then a Conservative member of the House of Commons. I wonder if he is any relation to John Jacob Astor who, as we all know, went down with the Olympic's sister ship? With a name like Waldorf, I recokon it cannot be mere co-incidence. The Times report also, prophetically, says that the Olympic is insured for a million pounds and that her watertight compartments don't make her immune from loss.

It remarks that the effect of the sinking of the Republic in 1909 to London's insurance markets would be: "a fleabite as compared with what would have happened had the Olympic seriously come to grief in the Atlantic" One wonders if someone somewhere had a crystal ball? Stuart Eliza 1801-1838), and an unnamed son (1802, died). Fourth child and second son William Backhouse Astor was the grandfather of John Jacob Astor IV, who died on the Titanic, and William Waldorf Astor, who founded the British line of Astors and was the father of the the member of Parliament Waldolf Astor. Here are the 7 children of William Backhouse Astor (1792-1875) and his wife Margaret Rebecca Armstrong: Emily (1819-1841), John Jacob Astor III (1822-1890), Laura (1824-1902), who married Franklin H.

Delano, and became the aunt of Sarah Delano, the mother of FDR, Mary Alida (1826-1881), William Backhouse Astor, Jr (1830-1892), Henry Astor (1830-1918), and Sarah (1832, died). Their oldest son John Jacob Astor III married Charlotte Augusta Gibbes and they had one son, William Waldorf Astor (First Viscount). JJA III's brother William Backhouse Astor, Jr. married Caroline Webster Schermerhorn and they had five children: Emily (1854-1881), Caroline Schermerhorn (1861-1948), and John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912) who died on Titanic.

William Waldorf Astor (First Viscount), cousin of JJA IV, married Mary Dahlgreen Paul and they had five children: Waldorf Astor (Second Viscount) (1879-1952), Pauline (1880-1972), John Rudolph Astor (1881, died), John Jacob Astor V (Baron Astor of Hever) (1886-1971), and Gwendolyn Enid (1889-1902). It was William Waldorf Astor who established the English line of Astors. After a bitter argument with his cousin Caroline (JJA IV's older sister), William moved his family to England in 1891. He became an English citizen in 1899. Son Waldorf Astor (Second Viscount), the nephew of JJA IV, was Oxford educated. He married the beautiful Nancy Langhorne in 1906. He became a member of the House of Commons from Plymouth in 1910 and in 1916 he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Lloyd George. His political career soon stalled, however.

In 1919 his wife Nancy ran for the Parliamnent from Plymouth and became the first woman in the House of Commons. The Astor line is often confusing. Note that JJA II had no children, while his brother William Backhouse Astor was the father of JJA III. JJA III's son was William Waldorf Astor, while his brother William Backhouse Astor Jr's son was JJA IV. William Waldorf Astor had a son JJA V (younger brother of Waldorf), while the son born posthumously to JJA IV was named JJA VI. Later, Waldorf Astor (Second Viscount) would have a son named JJA VII, but none of his younger brother JJA VI's three sons would carry the JJA name. Instead, the grandson of JJA V would become JJA VIII. The Astor Bloodline The Astor Bloodline The original founder of the Astor fortune was John Jacob Astor (1763-1884). John Jacob Astor was born in Waldorf, Duchy of Baden (Germany) from a Jewish bloodline.

The Jewish origins have been hidden, and quite a number of various ideas of the Astorï¿½s heritage have been put into circulation by the Astor's. John Jacob Astor was a butcher in Waldorf. In 1784, he came to America after a stop over in London, England. Although the story is that he came to America penniless--and that may be true--he soon joined the Masonic Lodge, and within 2-3 years had become the Master of the Holland Lodge No. 8 in N.Y. City. (This Holland Lodge is a prominent lodge in that many of its members have good connections to the Illuminati elite. An example of just one Lodge #8 member is Archibald Russell, 1811 - 1871, whose father was President of a real hotbed of Illuminati action for many years: The Royal Society of Edinburgh). By 1788, Astor was a master of Masonic lodge#8. This is rather interesting considering Astor could not speak English when he arrived in America, and supposedly was very poor.

John Jacob Astor was always very famous for being coldhearted, anti-social, ï¿½a man who didnï¿½t have charm, wit or grace.ï¿½ (This quote comes even from a relative of the DuPont family who wrote a sympathetic Biography entitled The Astor Family.) If this man lacked social graces and was so cold, and was so poor during his first years in the U.S., why did he rise to such prominence in Freemasonry ? Certainly not because of his social graces. For instance, one time later in life at a meal given for elites, when his hands got dirty at the table he reached over and used the shirt of the man beside him to wipe his hands. The original financial break came by carrying out a series of shady and crooked real estate deals in the N.Y. city area. The next break came when two men who are now known to have been in the Illuminati gave John Jacob Astor a special government privilege. The two men were Pres. Jefferson and Secretary Gallatin--both Illuminati members. The United States government had placed an embargo on all U.S. ships from sailing with goods in 1807.

But Astor got special permission from these two men for his ship to sail with its cargo. His ship sailed and made close to a $200,000 profit in that dayï¿½s money. Astor strangely profited greatly from the War of 1812, which crippled almost all the other American shippers. Astor also worked together with George Clinton, another member of the Illuminati, on land deals. Even at that period in history, British intelligence worked for the Committee of 300 and for the Thirteen Top Families, it is interesting then, that John Coleman who had access as an intelligence agent to secret documents, discovered that the original John Jacob Astor was also a British secret agent. The Thirteen Families have very intimate roles with the American and British intelligence cults. Prior to 1817, John Jacob Astor entered into the fur trade and remained the biggest player in the fur trade until he got out of it in 1834. Over the years, he had managed to build up a monopoly. How he managed to push everyone else out is a good question.

Bear in mind, white people had been trapping furs in the New World for several centuries, and the Indians for who knows how long. Then this guy Astor comes along and in a few years totally owns the whole industry! Again this could only have happened, because the occult power of this Astor family gave them the right. Obviously, others in the Committee of 300 had to step aside, if his position in the hierarchy had not given Astor the right, believe me the other families that originally controlled the fur trade would have gotten rid of Astor. One result of his fur company, was that Astoria, OR was created. Today, perhaps in honor of the family that originally took interest in it, Astoria is a real hot-bed for the secret Satanic covens in Oregon. John Jacob Astor did have a few helpful connections. Three of his relatives were captains on clipper ships. He had connections in London to the Blackhouse family. He married a Todd, a family frequently associated with Satanism. His wife, a Todd, was also connected to the influential Brevoort family.

And finally for some reason, John Jacob Astor was also on good relations with the politicians of the day, perhaps because most of them were Freemasons too. For a few years John Jacob Astor had participated in the opium trade, but in 1818-he publicly quit running opium to China. John Coleman in his good book The Conspiratorï¿½s Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300, p. 131 notes, ï¿½John Jacob Astor made a huge fortune out of the China opium trade .... it was the Committee of 300 who chose who would be allowed to participate in the fabulously lucrative China opium trade, through its monopolistic BEIC, and the beneficiaries of their largess remained forever wedded to the Committee of 300.ï¿½ Interestingly another Top 13 family, the Russell's , was also one of the lucky ones to get a slice of the China opium trade. It is clear repeatedly from history that Astor was privy to inside information in the government, and maintained his own courier system. John Jacob Astor bought up large amounts of land in NY which land greatly increased in value.

The Financial Panic of 1837 allowed him to foreclose on a large number of mortgages. John Jacob Astorï¿½s wealth continued to skyrocket. As one biography said, ï¿½When it came to a question of principle versus profit, Astor was a practical man.ï¿½ Put simply, he had no scruples. Astor had a reputation for being a ruthless landlord. He also had the reputation of not paying his legitimate debts. Astor became a banker, and sat on the board of 5 directors of the new national bank that Hamilton created for the U.S. government called the Bank of the United States. Astor owned a large block of the stock of the Bank of the United States. Astor also was fairly active during his life as a Freemason, holding several more key positions in the secret lodge life. John Jacob was the richest man in the United States. Note this reference. Meyers, Gustavus. History of the Great American Fortunes. London: Stationers Hall, 1909, p.

147 said, ï¿½Statistics issued in 1844 of manufacturers in the United States showed a total gross amount of $307,196,844 invested. Astorï¿½s wealth, then, was one-fifteenth of the whole amount invested throughout the territory of the United States...ï¿½ Is having 1/15th of all of what American money is invested not rich? John Jacob Astorï¿½s descendents had a penchant for secrecy, and set up things to rule from behind the scenes. In contrast, to some of the other top families, the Astor's preferred not to sit on boards of corporations they controlled. In 1890, a real estate expert calculated the Astor's owned 1/20 of New York City real estate. After making their fortune while residing in the New York area, the Astor's by and large have all gone to England. They still wield great financial power in the United States through proxies. Forum Magazine, Nov. 1889, commented that authorities estimated the Astor's were worth $300,000, but that that figure had to be an underestimate.

Today, my estimate of the Astor's is that they are worth about 40 billion dollars. One of the many foundations that the Astor's created was the Vincent Astor Foundation, which is controlled from England by the Astor's and has in the range of $100 million tax exempt dollars. The Vincent Astor Foundation has typically given to Catholic and Episcopalian needs, among other things. They also give money to agencies opposed to private ownership of guns. They give money to NYï¿½s public library. Imagine how much influence that gives them, when the library is receiving regular help for general support? A 1971 Foundation Directory stated that the V. Astor foundation had its present emphasis on preventing juvenile delinquency. Why donï¿½t I trust the Astorï¿½s in helping out with law enforcement? The William Waldorf Foundation states that its purpose is ï¿½Promotion of mutual understanding and the diffusion of knowledge and culture among the United States and the dominions, colonies, and countries of the British Commonwealth.ï¿½ This sounds very similar to the public statement of purpose that the secretive Pilgrim Soc. has given out to those who need something about them.

Assets for this foundation are a mere $64,000. Vincent Astor (now deceased) was a member of 41 private clubs, To give an idea of how much power just one of the many Astor men wield some of the businesses Vincent was involved include: director- American Express Company dir. Atlantic Fruit and Sugar Co. dir. Chase Manhattan Bank (of the Rockefellers) dir. City and Suburban Homes Co. dir. Classical Cinematograph Corporation dir. Cuban-Dominican Sugar Co. dir. Great Northern Railroad dir, Inter. Mercantile Marine Co. dir. National Park Bank of NY dir. NY County Trust Co. dir. Weekly Publications Inc. dir. Western Union Telegraph trustee NY Zoological Soc. advisor to Bankers Trust of NY member Amer. Museum of Nat. History member Nat. Institute of Social Sciences (notice these last two like so many elite controlled organizations are heavily involved in the spread of the evolution theory.) Just like the Rothschild's, DuPont's, and Rockefellers, the Astor's always set one of their Astor males as the head of the entire family.

This headship is passed down as a birthright within the different branches of the family, just as any King passes on his throne. On the corner of 33 rd St. and 5th Ave. (the site later began the site of the Empire State Building) the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was built by William Waldorf, et. al. The hotel opened in Mar. 1893. It is described as ï¿½the ultimate in snob appeal.ï¿½ Later two Astor cousins built the Astoria (another even taller elite Hotel) in New York which opened in 1897. Of course, like many of the other elite families, the Astor's have their Maine property to get away and relax. In 1894, John Jacob wrote a novel A Journey in Other Worlds where he describes a society which operates on the idea of conserving energy. Strange how the elite likes to promote conservation among us ï¿½cattle.ï¿½ In the late 1800ï¿½s, the Illuminati began to reconfigure its outward face. The higher levels started creating innocent sounding cover organizations to hide their meetings behind.

In 1901, the Astor's contributed toward the creation of the Pilgrim Society, which was the cover organization for Amer. & Brit. 6ï¿½ Princes of the Illuminati. I believe at least five Astor's are now members of the Pilgrim Society. The Pilgrims had recently included David Astor, John Jacob Astor 8th, and William Waldorf Astor 3rd. And during the 1970s, Baron Astor of Hever was the President of the London branch of the Pilgrims. This implies that Astor of Hever was at least the next level up in the chain of command. The Astor's also have been very prominent in the Groupï¿½ which is Britain's equivalent to the Skull & Bones Soc. In Britain, the Astor, along with about 20 other families dominate the Group, just as certain families like the Whitney's in the U.S. help dominate the Order of Skull & Bones . Again, as was earlier pointed out, the key to understanding Satanism is the bloodlines.

In 1910, the muscle and bone branches of the Illuminati reconfigured themselves with the creation of the Round Table groups in 1910. The Astor's were the part of the financial backers behind the Round Table groups along with Abe Bailey. Rhodes and Milner were key players in setting up The Society of the Elect, a super secret top circle of Illuminati. Rhodes Trust in part helped by the Astor, helps finance the Rhodes Scholarship system . Rhodes a high ranking Freemason wanted the Masonic clap-trap as part of these various new groups, but Milner and Brett did away with the Masonic rituals and costumes, etc. In 1919, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) was created. And the Astor's were the major financial backers of the RIIA which functions as the 4ï¿½ cover of the Illuminati. For those who are new to this, the RIIA is the British equivalent to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) which takes a major role in the policy making process in the U.S. Waldorf Astoria was appointed to the RIIA.

Just above the CFR/RIIA are round table groups which were initially named by Cecil Rhodes as the ï¿½Association of Helpersï¿½. Cecil Rhodes set up the Rhodes Scholarships to recruit and bring top men from several nations to Oxford to be initiated into the Illuminati and to learn about how to bring in a One-World-Government , So the initial selection into the Rhodes program--1st degree of the Illuminati - is equivalent to the initiation into the Skull & Bones. In the picture you see how the Cliveden Astor's were intimately connected to the Rhodes Scholars. Rhodes Scholars frequently went to the Cliveden Estate. By looking at the genealogy chart you can see how the family in London broke up into two powerful segments. One part centered around the Cleveden Estate. Another group became Barons-the Astor's of Hever - or the Hever Astor's for short. William Waldorf Astor owned the Pall Mall Gazette, the Observer, and the Pall Mall Magazine. The London Times was largely controlled by the Astor's, and since 1922 they have owned this major source of British news.

The DuPont's and the Rockefeller's also have some major businesses where they too own blatant large holdings. However, most of the wealth of the 13 Top families is hidden so that the ties to who owns it are difficult to track. Hoyt Ammidon has been a proxy for Vincent Astor and the other Astor's. (See membership list of Illuminati in this newsletter). The Astor family also used Owen Lattimore as their proxy for opium trade, who in turn used Laura Spelman who was funded by the Institute for Pacific Relations (I. P. R.). The I. P. R was the group that supervised the Illuminatiï¿½s decision to allow Red China to share in the Opium trade. The puppet strings behind big world events may not be seen by the public, but if we trace the origins of several big events we see the Astor's helping pull strings. The I. P. R helped lay the groundwork for the Pearl Harbor attack. The Astor's also were behind the appeasement policy in Europe which allowed Hitler to become a threat. The Astor's were also involved in the Temperance movement against alcoholic drink which was begun by the Womenï¿½s Christian Temperance Union.

The Temperance movement was an elite created movement just like today we have big issues like Apartheid which are made up by them to keep us busy. Joseph Kennedy and Onassis, two other top 13 Illuminati families got rich off of the Temperance movement by bootlegging. So many people have exposed the Temperance movement (See Occult Theocracy for just one expose of Freemasonryï¿½s involvement) that it is not pertinent to cover it here. Todayï¿½s equivalent of the Temperance movement is the drug war. Col. Jack Astor, one of the worldï¿½s most powerful men, was among those who went down with the Titanic. To his honor, he didnï¿½t have to sacrifice his life, but did. If he had been a scoundrel he could have chased a woman and her children from some lifeboat. Many sermons have been preached on the significance of the Titanic, and I personally am beginning to feel that God laid it on the hearts of so many of his ministers to understand that the Titanic was a judgment upon the pride of the world. More specifically it was a warning to the New World Orderï¿½s elite. Another Illuminati invention was Communism.

This has been so thoroughly documented I donï¿½t know why I have to state it here, except that there are still people who havenï¿½t taken the time to study it out. James II. Billingtonï¿½s book Fire In the Minds of Men - a very scholarly work, and Occult Theocracy are some good starting points to study this. The Fabian Society was also connected to the Illuminati. For instance, Illuminati prince Prof. George Edward Gordon Catlin, Pilgrim Soc. member was a member of the Fabian Societyï¿½s executive committee. The Fabian logo is a Wolf in sheep's clothing!!! Fabians like H. G. Wells who wrote so eloquently on the New World Order with such books as The New World Order, A Modern Utopia, The Open Conspiracy Blue Prints For A World Revolution was a wolf in sheep clothing. H. G. Wellï¿½s made the New World Order something that sounded advantageous to everyone, a Utopia of sorts. That is not what it will be. During the 1930ï¿½s, the Fabian Socialists created the Political and Economic Planning group (PEP).

Mason Viscount Waldorf Astoria was a leader of PEP. A confidential program that the PEP created and implemented through the British government was later described in a book Principles of Economic Planning in 1935. The book doesnï¿½t explain why its cover has a Masonic square and compass ostensibly displayed on its cover. George Bernard Shaw, who was a communist and Fabian Socialist was the best friend of Lady Nancy Astor, who became the first woman Member or Parliament. These two spend vast amounts of time together, much more than Nancy did with her husband Waldorf who she didnï¿½t care to be around. Waldorf was the Mason that was mentioned earlier who helped lead PEP. After Nancy Astor was elected (or selected by the elite) to be the first lady MP, one of the Russell lady's soon afterwards also became an MP. Communism pretends it is the enemy of the rich capitalists, but both the rich elite and the communist leaders are committed to wipe out Christianity, to wipe out free trade with monopolies, and to set up an Illuminati One-World-Government. Do you see they have similar goals?

A picture is included of Waldorf and Nancy Astorï¿½s visit to Russia during the 1930s. The Astor's were not treated like enemies but like royalty. Can we see how the elite controlled press have deceived us? Do not trust our Illuminati-controlled elite to protect us from communism, they control communism. Besides socialism, Nancy Astor was a big supporter of Christian Science. Christian Science was a front for witchcraft from Its very beginning. For more information on what Christian Science is about I suggest people study Be Wise As Serpents, chapter 2.6 ï¿½The Healing Lightï¿½. Nancy Astor wrote The Natural History of the Vampire and a book on the early Mason/Communist Bakunin. She used Grenfell family papers. The Grenfell family were close friends to the Cliveden Astor's. David Astor, (The Honorable) attended Bilderberger meetings in 1957 and 1966. Alpha Lodge is the lodge in England that is traditionally for royalty. There are other elite lodges too, where the those of the elite, can protect themselves from rubbing shoulders with those of less social stature.

These are the type of Masonic lodges that the Astor's Join. In summary, an examination of the Astor family reveals their close connections with the full spectrum of Illuminati activities ranging from Freemasonry, the Illuminati itself, the Pilgrim Society, the Round Tables, Communism, Fabian Socialism, CFR, RIIA. the Bilderbergers, as well as the various politically (that is Illuminati) tainted banks such as Chase Manhattan. Ava Alice Muriel Astor was an occultist. She was born in 1902, was pretty but also a very serious woman. She was a very strong willed person that was able to dominate a person in her presence unless they were also strong willed. She was into Egyptian magic and believed she was the reincarnation of an Egyptian princess and a disciple of Ikhnaton. Alice Astor may have been one of the first people to enter King Tutï¿½s tomb, where she got herself a necklace.

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World as a picture of things that were to come --most people think as a expose, but it was really more as a plan or blueprint Aldous Huxley and Alice did a great deal of occult things together. Their financial power is unchecked. Myers and others have noted the Astor's are above the law. The Top 13 families donï¿½t obey the law--they are the law. The Astor's may have Illuminati Kings and Princes in their ranks, they may have dozens of billions of assets, yet it will all be nothing when they face their Creator at judgment. FDR and Lady Astor - 2 socialists Follow up on the Astor's One of the items that I felt I should have given the readers back in the 1/1/93 issue was the Masonic background of John Jacob Astor (1763-1848). For the record here is his Masonic involvement: Master of the Holland Lodge No.8, of N. Y.

C.-1788 Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of New York-1796-1801 Junior Grand Warden on two occasions-1796 & 1801 Secretary of the comamandery (then called encampments). For a busy man, he kept himself busy In his Masonic work. THE ASTOR FAMILY REVISITED WITH INFORMATION ON THEIR CHANLER BRANCH. THERE ARE 13 TOP BLOODLINES Thirteen families or bloodlines are at the top, and five of these families are the inside core of these thirteen. Prior to Be Wise As Serpents, the existence of thirteen top families was not known by very many people. The existence of the 13 families had come out in Berry Smithï¿½s book Final Notice in the 1980s, but the names were still unknown. Berry Smith of Australia wrote in his book Final Notice p. 9, ï¿½There are 13 families or groups heading up the World Government plan. These families are portrayed as the 13 layers of blocks found on the strange seal on the reverse side of the U.S.

$1 bill.ï¿½ In a little read article, one SRA victim recently wrote that Satanism was controlled by a few families. Recently, one of the DuPont's was on a television show because the DuPont's were trying to kidnap him because they didnï¿½t like his support for the book Dope. Inc. I was able to get a copy of the book, and was overjoyed to find such an excellent book. My sources have been telling me that the top Illuminati families were behind the drug trade. Yes, Satanï¿½s top followers are also the kingpins in destroying humanity for profit through drug trafficking. The following families (besides others) or individuals from these families are mentioned in Dope Inc. as involved in some aspect of the drug trade: the Astor's, Bundy's, DuPont's, Freeman's, Kennedyï¿½s, Liï¿½s, Rockefellers, Rothschild's, and Russell's. It is no coincidence that nine of the Top 13 families would get there names in a book which revealed the big names behind the worldï¿½s illegal narcotics trade.

It should be mentioned that some other prominent Illuminati families also play key roles in the drug trade such as the Bronfman's, Cabot's, Shaw's, Bacons, Perkins, Morgan, Forbes, Cisneros and Oppenheimer's. Where have we seen such names before? There are names in Dope Inc. that people would do well to know the danger of such as Louis Mortimer Bloomfield, Robert Vesco, Francois Genoud of Switzerland, Ivan Slavkov of Bulgaria, the Duke of Kent - Master of the Grand Mother Lodge of the Scottish Rite, and Jardine Matheson to mention a few. All our favorite secret fraternal groups appear in Dope, Inc. too. For instance, the Triads, P2 Masonry, regular Freemasonry, the CIA, the Order of St. John, and the Jesuits . The Universal Christian Gnostic Churchï¿½s which practices black magic has a whole chapter showing its connection to the drug trade. Britainï¿½s assassination bureau Permindex which has been mentioned previously in this newsletter also gets a chapter in the book. In the Be Wise As Serpents book, I examine in detail only the Rothschild's and the Russell's.

I did not present much to back up my statements about the 13 families. Further, One of the unthinkable items that most people do not want to consider is that their leaders who they have idolized may be utterly corrupt. There was nothing to do but sit down and give the nitty-gritty details if the threat from the Illuminati was to be properly understood. The facts would speak for themselves. The ideal solution for both writer and reader was for me to write up my research and for you to read it as a series of articles. There is only so much a person can assimilate at once, and these articles give lots of details. In January of this year I began a series of articles on the top 13 families - families which the top experts said nobody knew about. I did this with the hope of stimulating others to notice these families, and to alert a wider sector of the Body of Christ. The young colleague David J. Smith, who wrote part of the Jan. 1 article on the Illuminati, was led to carry out further research in addition to what the Jan. 1 article had. Most of this articleï¿½s information on the Astor's then is a result of Davidï¿½s research.

DIFFICULTY IN DETERMINING THE FACTS. Most of the material put out on the Astor's shows the unmistakable mark of distortion by writers and historians giving information in line with what the Astor's wanted the public to get. Books on the Astor's contain both believable and unbelievable material, fact and fiction, Some of the real facts may remain obscured forever, but that has not stopped us from getting the most accurate picture we could reconstruct. The Astor's do not make the task of investigating them easy. They have been very secret and very deceptive since they arrived In this nation. John Jacob Astor, the first prominent Astor was a notorious liar, ï¿½he was known on occasion to invent romantic tales for the edification of people who annoyed him with questions ...... Men who knew him best were, therefore, neither ready to discredit completely all legends about his exploits nor to repeat them as gospel. The truth, they suspected, lay somewhere between the two extremes.ï¿½ (Terrell, John Upton. Furs by Astor., p.

102.) John Jacobï¿½s son insured that his fatherï¿½s lies would go unchallenged by incinerating all of his personal records, business records and other papers. ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY & its NAME The Astor's have come up with various origins for themselves and those for or against the family have added more ideas. One strong possibility is that the Astor's are descendants of the Astorga family found in Southern Italy before the 1600s. The most likely meaning of the name is that both Astorga and Astor are variations meaning ï¿½Astarteï¿½ who is the mother of the occult. Her name is also Semiramis. In Babylon the trinity was Nimrod (the sun), Semiramis (the moon), and Tammuz (the morning star). In Egypt, these gods were called Osiris, Isis, and Horus. The pictures and statues Isis and Horus were renamed by the Roman Catholic church as the Virgin Mary and the Christ-child. THE FAMILY IN EUROPE The family may have moved from Savoy to Waldorf, Germany.

Although it is not a certainty, the best explanation from the available clues indicates that Waldorfï¿½s coven had some important personages in the witchcraft/satanic system and that Johann Astorï¿½s family had power. At that time in Europe, the Astor family had no chance to turn their occult power into success. The power and class structure In Europe was rigid and grid locked. The boundaries between peasant and aristocracy were solidly in place. So the family looked to the New World to transmute their position in the Satanic hierarchy into financial wealth and power. Johann Astor In Waldorf was only a butcher. His best son John Jacob (1763-1848) was selected to establish the House of Astor in America. JOHN JACOB ASTOR GOES TO AMERICA At age 16, John Jacob Astor quit helping the family butcher business, went to England and then later to America. Looking at the details of things, and piecing the truth together it appears that his Satanic authority was already in place, because he was able to travel to England, and as a German-speaking peasant converse face to face with the Backhouse family in England.

Of course the biographers make it sound like John Jacob Astor left Germany for himself, rather than his family. Michael Astor gives a glimpse of John Jacobï¿½s mission, ï¿½He concentrated almost entirely on building a fortune, on escaping the poverty of his childhood and establishing a secure financial position for his family in America.ï¿½ (Astor, Michael. Tribal Feeling p. 11) OVERVIEW The process of 400 years looks like this. Various Satanic families moved into the Southwest German area in the late Medieval time period. Witchcraft associated with Diana was practiced In Southwest Germany, and this began to alarm various elements of the Roman Catholic church. The Astor family provides leadership in the covens in the Heidelberg area. Witchcraft spread virtually all over Southwest Germany. An examination of the old records from about 1500 to 1650 show that witchcraft was being practiced throughout the area.

(I have the names of over 120 towns were it was practiced in SW Germany, the list derived from old German records.) The Astor's did not have the position, wealth, and power that accorded their position in the late 1700s of occult leadership. In Germany, England and France there was no way to climb the social ladder. However, the New World presented opportunities. The Astor's sent two sons to prepare the way for John Jacob, one to England, one to America, and then sent John Jacob their most promising brightest son to the New World. While in America the Astor family helped the Satanic elite headquartered in England to maintain its control over America. Having come from Germany, and also due to Satanism being secret, John Jacob Astorï¿½s help given to pro-British-elite moves were more difficult to suspect. After establishing themselves as aristocrats in America, the tribe of Astor's moved to England, where because of their high social position in America, no one questioned the Queen bestowing titles of nobility on them. All along the process, people with Illuminati connections opened doors for the Astor's.

At this point, it needs to be pointed out that there were ties between the following groups: English royalty, English Satanism, English Freemasonry, and German witchcraft, and the Italian Black nobility. (Taking the liberty I have as author of this article, I am going to digress to give some examples of these connections. Although on the surface this doesnï¿½t directly pertain to the Astor's, it does.) When one paints in the bigger panorama of what was happening in the occult world, and then one sees a blazing star streak across that panorama, then the real history of that blazing star is given by tracking its voyage through that panorama. However, the history books have intentionally hidden the significance of so many of the players and groups that lay along the track of that blazing streak. SPECIFIC GROUPS Order of the Knights of the Helmet--This was an illuminated secret society with Sir Francis Bacon at its head. In order to hide its Masonic rituals, Sir Francis Bacon wrote a play entitled ï¿½The Order of the Helmet.ï¿½ This was performed in 3 Jan. 1594, and again for twelve days in December 1594. In Dec.

1594, British Aristocrats who had been demonically illuminated, met and put on a ï¿½play.ï¿½ Calling their initiation ceremony a play was a great cover. Sir Francis Bacon was made king and ï¿½prince of purple.ï¿½ Various men were invested with the Collar of Knighthood of the Helmet, and took vows, And a ï¿½Series of Charges by six High Councilorsï¿½ was given in a manner that is very similar to what the satanic S.R.I.A. does now. The reader may ask what does this have to do with the Astor's? This is simply a few brief look at the background of what was happening in the occult in Europe. The Queen of England sent Sir Francis Bacon as a young man in his twenties to the continent of Europe. Sir Francis Bacon toured France in places such as Louvre, St. Cloud, Blois, Paris, and Poictiers, He also traveled to Germany, Italy and Spain. He visited the various royal courts, such as the court of Marguerite de Valois. Marguerite was married to King Henry of Navarre. Her mother was the evil Catherine de Medicis.

Sir Francis Bacon also met with many secret societies . At Margueriteï¿½s court he spent time with ï¿½The Pleiadeï¿½ fraternity, which was a group of 7 intellectuals. According to the best biographer of Sir Francis Bacon, who was Alfred Dodd (Alfred spent his entire life studying Sir Francis Bacon), Sir Francis Bacon was initiated into a large number of secret occult societies when he was on the continent of Europe. He learned kabbalistic magic, Egyptian mysticism, Arabian mysticism, and the customs of the German Steinmetzin. (Dodd, Alfred. Francis Baconï¿½s Life-Story. London: Rider & Co., 1988, p.10.4.) This information has been provided to give some feel for how the occult in Europe was in contact with its various parts, and that its tentacles included many of the royal families. Hell Fire Club -- This was a secret Satanic cult which was associated with early Freemasonry. When the connections became known between the Satanists of the Hell Fire Club and the elite of Freemasonry, Freemasonry and the elite made some radical moves.

First, Freemasonry publicly proclaimed that it had nothing to do with the Hell Fire Club. When the Hell Fire Club was publicly disbanded by the government (acting on orders from people that tied-in with the club). Later, quietly the club was reconstituted. Phillip, 1 at Duke of Wharton (1698-1731) who was the second person of nobility to be Grand Master of Englandï¿½s Freemasons (G.M. of the Grand Lodge 6/1722-11/25/1723) was president of the Hell Fire Club. He was an M.P, in the House of Lords. In 1726, he left England and was a basically brought into ill-repute by the Masons, who distanced themselves from him. George Lee, Earl of Lichfield was also another prominent Mason who was a member of the Hell Fire Club. Benjamin Franklin, who was the head of the American Freemasons in various capacities, and also the head of the Rosicrucian's and a number of other secret occult groups was also a member of the Hell Fire Club.

Benjamin Franklinï¿½s Satanism was not mentioned in my Be Wise As Serpents book, but he was an important Satanist who was part of the Order of the Quest--that is the group which has been entrusted with the plans for bringing in the New World Order of Satan. Remember that John Jacob Astor was very involved with Freemasonry, as were a number of his intimate friends such as N.Y. Governor DeWitt Clinton and General John A. Armstrong. In regards to the Hell Fire Club, the Earl of Sandwich, Benjamin Franklin and Sir Francis Dashwood were leaders in the Hell Fire Club and were also Post-Master Generals of the British Postal Service, All were Freemasons too. Their positions as Post-Master Generals allowed them total access to the mail, and allowed them to spy on the communications of the 18th century. The man who became Post-Master General after Dashwood, who moved on to be a M.P, in the Br. Parliament, was the Mason John Wilkes. John Wilkes took over in 1766 (in 1774 was Lord Mayor of London).

Wilkes then brought one of the original Hell Fire Club members, a friend of his Willis Hill to help with the Postal Service. The next Post-Master general was the totally corrupt man the Earl of Sandwich, who served until 1771. Benjamin Franklin spent the summers of 1772, 1773, and 1774 at Dashwoodï¿½s estate in West Wycombe. The caves under Dashwoodï¿½s estate at West Wycombe were used for satanic sexual rituals, which were participated in by Benjamin Franklin. Ordo Saturnus--This is an old secret satanic German order. In the last few newsletters, I have been educating people on the meaning of Saturn. It means Satan.

This previous information helps us understand John Jacob Astor IV when he writes in his book A Journey in Other Worlds, ï¿½The souls of the righteous departed were found on Saturn, where, to a background of weird music, pulsating hearts, luminous brains and centers of spiritual activity quiver with motion.ï¿½ (A side comment: John Jacob Astor IV had a reputation for his insatiable sexual lust to paw women.) One of the people we have to investigate in relation to the Ordo Saturnus is Valentine Jeune, who was John Jacob Astorï¿½s mentor in Waldorf, Germany. Jeune may well have belonged to an organization such as Ordo Saturnus. JOHN JACOB ASTOR LEAVES GERMANY FOR ENGLAND & AMERICA John Jacob Astor arrived in England and may well have been introduced In England to British Intelligence by his brother George. At any rate, he got involved in British intelligence which has always been closely linked to Freemasonry and the elite. He spent time socially with the Blackhouse family which an aristocratic family. How do you suppose such a supposedly destitute young man could be accepted so easily into the Blackhouse social scene?

This is not explained by modern biographers. After four years, his brother George then sent him to America to represent Georgeï¿½s music company. His brother Henry met him when he arrived in 1784 at age 20 and introduced him to the occult world in New York City. Thomas Backhouse & Co. was a leading house in the lucrative fur trade. John Jacob Astor set out to bring the fur trade under his own control. There is a tact that must be faced. the eliteï¿½s Committee of 300, a secret legislative group of the Illuminati, decided that John Jacob Astor could expand into the fur trade and into the opium narcotics trade. Dope, Inc. shows that the Astor family was the first American family to get into the Opium trade, and that their opium trade had was a special privilege that most other American businesses did not even try to compete with. Why? Dope, Inc. doesnï¿½t say this but I know that it is because the Committee of 300 decides such things, not free enterprise. American furs yielded 1000% profit in those days.

The privilege of fur trading was a pot of gold so to speak that the Committee of 300 gave Astor, and it could only have happened because the Astor family in Waldorf was already part of a principal satanic bloodline. (The Illuminati members of the Astor family today use their influence to help those of the Illuminati in their dope trade.) William Backhouse the American representative of the London Backhouse family and John Jacobï¿½s brother Henry were two of John Jacob initial contacts in the New World. Soon John Jacob had met all types of people involved in New Yorkï¿½s occult world. John Jacob married Sarah Todd. John Jacobï¿½s step-mother Christina Barbara is described as ï¿½the perfect, cruel fairy tale stepmother.ï¿½ John Jacob ï¿½raised the principle of self-interest to the level of a philosophy and ..... claimed for himself a natural superiority over his less able and less powerful fellow men, a sort of God-given right to exploit the world and its inhabitants for his personal gain, This was not mere cynicism, but a genuine belief that in some way [he was] among the chosen people for whose convenience and advancement life was ordered ..... Such people ...

make history, but they also pervert it in human terms because their world and the codes that govern it have nothing to do with morality.ï¿½ (Sinclair, David. Dynasty The Astor's and Their Times. p. 59) ï¿½Astor took Freemasonry seriously... [Gov. DeWitt] Clinton rose unusually fast in the degrees, but the German Immigrant [John Jacob] who talked at times as if he had marbles in his mouth was not far behind him. Astor eventually caught up to Clinton...ï¿½ (Terrell. Furs by Astor, p. 84). DeWItt Clintonï¿½s uncle George Clinton, who served as Jeffersonï¿½s Vice-President was also a member of their Holland Lodge No. 8. Archibald Russell of the Russell family, as well as two members of the elite Livingstone family were members of this lodge too at the time. The Livingstone family were participating in the Committee of 300 at that time. One of my Masonic reference books states that business at the Holland Lodge No, 8 was conducted in German.

If so, why were all these other men involved with it who apparently had English as their mother tongue? In the 1/1/93 issue, Astorï¿½s dirty real estate deals and his activity as a drug king-pin were discussed. However, Astorï¿½s connivance to create a nation on the west coast wasnï¿½t. Thomas Jefferson, who I have now come to realize was a part of the Illuminati, was in on the plot. Jefferson said that he ï¿½hoped for the establishment of an independent nation on the Pacific Coast, bound to the United States by ties of blood, language, and friendship.ï¿½ The Northwest was to become a sovereign nation under Astorï¿½s rule. The plan failed miserably due to a variety of reasons. Another item that was missed in the earlier article was how John Jacob Astor profited by using his own courier system and powerful friends to profit from the War of 1812. Astor knew the War of 1812 was coming and he set himself up to profit from it in several ways. (His Masonic brother and friend John A..

Armstrong 1758-1843 helped the British war effort as the American Secretary of War. A descendent of Johnï¿½s later married into the Astor's.) Astor himself helped the British when he could profit by it. The two illuminati Jefferson and Gallatin gave Astor special sailing privileges which netted him much profit. When war was declared against Great Britain, Astor sent agents to the British forts in Canada to inform them. This gave the British advance knowledge of the war, before the Americans troops knew. This allowed the British to seize northern American forts and to insure that the British had control of the regionï¿½s fur trade. This was essential for Astor to get control of the fur market, because then when the British furs were embargoed he had less competition. He obtained special permission from the President to import all furs owned by him and held in Canada before the war. He used this permission illegally to trap new furs. When the war ended. Astor was able to heat everyone else to Europe with his furs and make a killing. Astor cleared his name of shame, by sending Washington, D.C.

information about a mutiny at a British fort which allowed the U.S. army to take advantage of the enemyï¿½s weak condition to capture the area. John Jacob Astor traded in guns, and his firearms were used in at least one-Latin American revolution. Bear in mind Latin-American revolutions have all been planned in Masonic Lodges. When employees of John Jacob Astor would trap for or trade furs with the Astor fur houses, they would he paid with letters of credit. Then Astor agents would he sent out to ambush and kill them, so that the Astor Fur Company could save money. The deaths were blamed on Indians. Zachary Taylor stated, ï¿½Take the American Fur Company in the aggregate, and they are the greatest scoundrels the world ever knew.ï¿½ (Oï¿½Connor, Harvey. The Astor's p.44) WILLIAM BACKHOUSE ASTOR This was the son of John Jacob Astor. He was infamous for his rank treatment of thousands of people who rented from him in New York.

There were repealed riots by tenants who were opposed by the harsh filthy living conditions in the buildings Astor owned, but their complaints were consistently ignored by Astor and their riots suppressed by the police. Only half of the children of his tenants lived to age 20. The Astor's were deeply involved with the Tammany organization. William B. supported the corrupt administration of the infamous New York mayor, Fernando Wood. The government at that time was a pack of corrupt men. When Wood was exposed, Astor's involvement was overlooked. This is another example of Astor power. JOHN JACOB III He was the son of William Backhouse Astor. He was just as haughty, just as cruel, and just as corrupt as his father and grandfather had been. He created ï¿½sweat shopsï¿½ for the poor masses living in his New York tenements. He also supported corrupt politicians such as the criminal ï¿½Bossï¿½ Tweed who ran NYC. The Tweed Ring stole millions of dollars from the city of New York. Before they finally got caught and sent to prison Mayor Tweed and gang cost the city $200 million.

Again John Jacob Astor IIIï¿½s power allowed his involvement to be basically overlooked by the press, while Tweed went to prison for life. THE CHANLER BRANCH Most of the Astor's took off for England, but one branch of the Astor's that is clearly involved in Satanism and the occult is the Chanler family. The Chanler family have Astor blood via ï¿½Madieï¿½ Astor Ward. The Chanlerï¿½s parents died at an early age, and the Rokeby Estate in NY was given by the Astor's so that a cousin Mary Marshall could raise the Chanler children. The Chanler family is one branch that clearly shows all the earmarks of the Satanic hierarchy. The behavior of Robert Chanler, Elizabeth Chanler and Armstrong Chanler have all the classic earmarks of having MPD, and having suffered SRA. The Rokeby mansion that the Chanler family lived in was a haunted house of the first rate.

Fairies, ghosts, signs and potents, and all type of occult activity takes place at this mansion, When top rx-Illuminati members who have managed to escape Satanism describe their home life, they mention that occult phenomena was a natural part of home life. This certainly is what life has been like at the Chanler Rokeby mansion. The Chanlers are not well known publicly but have been part of the social scene of the elite. Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (of the elite Cabot family) were good friends of the Chanlers. The Chanlers created the town Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. (At some point I hope to do an expose on the resort area in that general area that is a ï¿½meat marketï¿½ for the Illuminati. Families like the Bill Clintonï¿½s go down there every year for vacation to mingle with other middle management families that the Illuminati use as lackeys.

Illuminati ï¿½scoutsï¿½ watch and choose who they want to use for political office, etc.) A Whoï¿½s Who of the Astor orphans--the Chanler family who are of interest to our study of the Illuminati will now be given. John Armstrong Chanler-married mystic novelist and morphine addict Amelie Rives. ï¿½Once wandering in the twilight she asked wistfully, ï¿½Do you think If I drank a whole cupful of warm, bubbly blood, I would see a real fairyï¿½ ... Then there had been the period during which she suffered anguish over the thought that Satan was banished from Paradise forever; she prayed with tears that ultimately he might be pardoned and readmitted to celestial bliss.ï¿½ (Thomas, Lately. The Astor Orphans: A Pride of Lions p. 76.) John carried on spiritual experiments in what he termed ï¿½esoteric Buddhismï¿½. Due to his obsession with this practice and a business fight with his brothers they put him in an insane asylum. He finally did get released. One has to wonder what the whole story was behind the incarceration.

His esoteric Buddhism or ï¿½x-facultyï¿½ was a trance state where a spirit spoke or did automatic writing through him. His eye color would change when this spirit worked through him. Margaret Livingston Chanler retained the rights to Rokeby. She married into the Aldrich family, which is another Illuminati family. The Aidriches now own Rokeby. William Chanler was a friend of Tom Foley who was the Tammany district leader of the Irish-Italian district east of city hall. Another friend was Jack Follansbee. Jack Follansbeeï¿½s cousin was William Randolf Hearst, an Illuminatus of the 6ï¿½ who got Billy Grahamï¿½s ministry going by financing the first several years. The Hearst family is in the Illuminati. One of the Rothschild descendants Don Hearst Bauer, has changed his name to Don Hearst. Winthrop Chanlerï¿½s wife, Amelie Rive, her father William Cabell Rives studied law under Thomas Jefferson. THE ROOSEVELT CONNECTION The Roosevelt family has been connected to the Delano family which Is a Black Venetian Noble family that goes back for many centuries.

The lives of these families also intertwine with the Astors. Examples of the interweaving are: ï¿½ Franklin Hughes Delano--heir to a massive whale oil fortune. He married Lavia Astor, daughter of the original William Backhouse Astor. ï¿½ James Roosevelt Roosevelt-married Helen Astor, daughter of William Backhouse, Jr. ï¿½ James Roosevelt--a Freemason, he married the sister of Vincent Astorï¿½s wife. SUMMARY In our revisit to the Astor's, we have examined in more detail the early life of John Jacob Astor and his connections to Satanism. We have touched on his son and grandson who led the Astor family after John Jacob died. We have seen more of their meanness and connections to corruption. We examined how Satanism and the occult had a hold on England even back when John Jacob Astor came to the New World. Three important occult organizations of the 17th & 18th century were introduced. We have looked at the Chanler family, a branch of the Astor family which is part of Satanism. We also looked at how the Roosevelt's and Delano families have been associated with the Astor's.

Attention:You are browsing our famous burial locations. If you are looking for a non-famous grave, please start from our home page . b. July 13, 1864 d. April 15, 1912 Businessman, Disaster Victim. A victim of the RMS Titanic sinking, he was the great-grandson of patriarch John Jacob Astor I , the grandson of "landlord of New York" William Backhouse Astor, and the son of THE Mrs. William Astor, nee Caroline Schermerhorn , legendary queen of New York's elite "400." He and his older cousin, William Waldorf Astor, built... [Read More] (Bio by: Nikita Barlow ) Cause of death: Titanic sinking Plot: Westerly Division, Lots 743-786 b. September 22, 1830 d. October 30, 1908 Socialite. She was "the" Mrs. Astor and the granddaughter-in-law of patriarch John Jacob Astor , who had amassed a family fortune even greater than her own.

Married to William Astor in 1853, she became the queen of Gilded Age society, disdaining to associate with those not named to her elite "List of 400." A feud with her nephew William Waldorf Astor was eventually resolved with the establishment of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel... [Read More] (Bio by: Nikita Barlow ) b. March 30, 1902 d. August 13, 2007 Philanthropist. Born Roberta Brooke Russell in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, her father was Major General John Henry Russell Jr. , a military officer who eventually became Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. She dropped out of high school in 1919 to marry John Dryden Kuser, (her first serious relationship), when she was 17. The son of the founder of South Jersey Gas and Electric and the grandson of the founder... [Read More] (Bio by: Andrew A. Caruso ) Plot: Section 88, row 2 b. May 20, 1886 d. July 19, 1971 British Politician.

He gave his second son John Astor (he dropped the Jacob to have his name sound more British) Hever Castle and thereby created the Hever branch of the English Astor family. Like his older brother educated at Eton and Oxford, John Astor lived the life of a typical English gentleman, distinguishing himself in World War I and being a member of Parliament for 23 years. Like his father, he acquired a newspaper, the London "Times", Great Britian's most prestigious paper. This made... [Read More] b. June 10, 1822 d. February 22, 1890 Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, Financier. Grandson of patriarch John Jacob Astor I and son of William Backhouse Astor. He devoted his life to philanthropy and civic affairs. He and his wife Charlotte provided funding for a host of charities, including the Children's Aid Society, the Astor Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New York Cancer Hospital. During the Civil War, he served as an volunteer Aide-de-Camp to General George B. McClellan, and recieved the brevet of...

[Read More] Plot: Westerly Division, Lots 743-786 b. November 15, 1891 d. February 3, 1959 Financier, Businessman, Philanthropist. The son of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, he entered Harvard University only to leave after the death of his father in the sinking of the "RMS Titanic"'. He was the first Astor, in several generations, to take active control of the family investments, with interests in automobiles, shipping and air transportation, as well as the ancestral involvement in Manhattan, New York City, New York real estate. A Commodore of The New York Yacht Club, his yacht, "... [Read More] (Bio by: Robert Bruce ) Plot: Section 88, row 2 Astor, Lady. Nancy Witcher b. May 19, 1879 d. May 2, 1964 Society Figure, Women's Pioneer. An American married to British wealth and position, she became the first woman to sit in, though not the first elected to, the House of Commons.

Raised in Albemarle County, Virginia, by a Confederate veteran father made well-off in the railroad boom, she was a noted beauty in her time. She and her four sisters were collectively called the "Gibson Girls" from images created by her older sister Irene's husband, painter Charles Dana Gibson. Moving to England in the... [Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford ) b. March 4, 1842 d. May 25, 1915 Founder of the Jacob Ruppert Brewing Company. Jacob Ruppert, Sr. was one of the first and most noted brewers in the US. He was born in NYC and was a son of Franz and Wilhelmina Zindel-Ruppert of Bavaria. Under he expert guidance of his father, Jacob learned the brewing trade thoroughly. At ten he began working for his father's Turtle Bay Brewery in Midtown Manhattan which was then only two years old. Work was hard for him and his father, as machinery was scarce during the Civil War. In 1867 he... [Read More] (Bio by: K.

Jacob Ruppert ) Plot: Section 53, Lot 2618, In Family Mausoleum b. June 19, 1893 d. March 27, 1940 Socialite. The wife of John Jacob Astor IV, she survived of the sinking of the "RMS Titanic" on April 14/15, 1912 which took her husband. She was 18 years old at the time. (Bio by: Erik Lander ) b. July 17, 1843 d. December 22, 1908 Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. During the Civil War, he served as a member of Company K, 33d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Jacob, along with 22 other men (including 2 civilians) who, by direction of General Mitchell penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad train, "The General" at Big Shanty, Georgia, in an attempt to destroy the bridges and tracks between Chattanooga and Atlanta. Led by James J. Andrews, the men were able to take possession of...

[Read More] Cause of death: angina pectoris Plot: Lot # 338, Section 1W, Grave #16 GPS coordinates: 40.6458015, 83.5880966 (hddd.dddd) Best, Jacob b. May 1, 1786 d. January 26, 1861 Business Magnate. Jacob Best learned the brewer's trade in his hometown of Hesse Darnstadt, Germany, and then moved on to operate a small brewery in Mattenheim. In 1840, two of Best's four sons immigrated to America, settling in the Kilbourntown section of Milwaukee. They were joined by Jacob Best, his two younger sons and other family members in 1844. With his sons, Jacob Best opened the Emipre Brewery producing lager beer, wiskey and vinegar. As demand increased of light lager beer, the firm... [Read More] (Bio by: Charles Haig ) Plot: Section 8, Block 9, Lots 13 and 14 b. August 5, 1867 d.

January 13, 1939 Major League Baseball Team Owner, US Congressman, Businessman. A philanthropist, brewer, manufacturer, sportsman, builder, and adventurer, he was the son of Jacob and Anna Gillig-Ruppert, originators of the Jacob Ruppert Brewery in Olde Yorkville of Manhattan's upper east side. He served a Colonel in the 7th Regiment, New York National Guard and was elected to represent New York�s 15th and 16th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1899 to 1907. He best known... [Read More] (Bio by: K. Jacob Ruppert ) b. July 12, 1876 d. March 5, 1944 Poet. He was an important link between the Symbolist and Surrealist movements of French Literature. Born into a Jewish family from Brittany, he moved to Paris in 1897 and became a fixture of the Montmartre and Montparnasse artistic communities. His friends included Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Amedeo Modigliani (who painted his portrait).

As a painter he was briefly associated with the Futurists but it was with his poetry and prose works that he won notoriety: "The Dice Box" (... [Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards ) Body lost or destroyed , Cemetery of Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire, France. Jacob, Max b. July 12, 1876 d. March 5, 1944 Poet. He was an important link between the Symbolist and Surrealist movements of French Literature. Born into a Jewish family from Brittany, he moved to Paris in 1897 and became a fixture of the Montmartre and Montparnasse artistic communities. His friends included Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Amedeo Modigliani (who painted his portrait). As a painter he was briefly associated with the Futurists but it was with his poetry and prose works that he won notoriety: "The Dice Box" (1906)... [Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards ) b. May 3, 1906 d. September 25, 1987 Actress.

Born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, in Quincy, Illinois to a German immigrant father, Otto Ludwig Langhanke, and an American mother from Illinois, Helen Marie Vasconcellos, of Portuguese and Irish ancestry. Her parents were very ambitious for her, they began with placing Mary into various beauty contests. In one contest that came to the attention of Hollywood moguls, they signed her at the age of 14. Her first movie was a bit part in The Scarecrow in 1920. Throughout 1921 to 1923 she... [Read More] (Bio by: Shock ) Cause of death: Heart attack Plot: N-L523-5. Facing the mausoleum, go 10 rows down the slope to your right. The grave is about 6 feet to the right of the large wide tree. b. November 9, 1887 d. November 9, 1977 Actress. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, November 9, 1877, she began her career playing trombone on riverboats and in vaudeville when she signed a contract with Universal in 1915.

She made her screen debut in "Concert" (1921), followed by "Strong Man" (1926) and "The Cat and the Carney" (1927). Her other credits included Laurel and Hardy films, "Our Gang" shorts, "The Scarlet Claw" (1944), "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1956) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1961). She passed away suddenly... [Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith ) Cause of death: Stroke Plot: Abbey of the Psalms, Haven of Worship, North Wall, Niche 5, Tier 13 GPS coordinates: 34.0892906, -118.3211975 (hddd.dddd) Lady Astor Lady Astor Lady Astor - Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess (1879-1964) . She was born Nancy Witcher Langhorne, an American daughter of Chiswell Dabney Langhorne of Danville, Virginia.

Her first husband was Robert Gould Shaw; they were divorced in 1903 and then she moved to England. Three years later she married Waldorf Astor (1879-1952). Her father-in-law, William Waldorf Astor, was the great grandson of John Jacob Astor. He became a naturalized British subject, bought Hever Castle -- pouring millions into restoring it, got elected member of Parliament in 1910, raised to peerage in 1916 (House of Lords), and then was created Viscount Astor in 1917. His son won his seat in the House of Commons. In 1919 her father-in-law died. Nancy's husband succeeded his father as the second Viscount Astor of Hever Castle and he entered the House of Lords, vacating his seat in the lower House. Nancy became a candidate for her husband's vacant seat and won -- the first woman to ever hold a seat in the House of Commons. She would hold that seat, as a Conservative Member of Parliament until retiring in 1945, serving the Sutton division in Plymouth.

One of her political legacies is of a champion of women's and children's rights. A less flattering look at her political views paints her as an elitist who felt she and her social cast (the cultured elite) could better benevolently lead the rest of us commoners than we could lead ourselves. She was known as a fierce debater. There is a famous exchange between Winston Churchill and Lady Astor when they were both staying at Blenheim Castle visiting the Marlboroughs . The two politicians had been at each other's throat all weekend when Lady Astor said, "Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee." Whereupon Winston said, "Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it." (1) Provenance

Question: What relation was "Waldorf Astor, who became a British member of Parliament, to US millionaire John Jacob Astor?
Answer: Great-grandson